Printing and manifolding machine



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UNITED" STATES JOHN Q. SHERMAN, OI DAYTON, OHIO.

PRINTING AND MANIFOLDING MACHINE.

Application filed February 19, 1924. Serial No. 693,878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I,'JOHN Q. SHERMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda. resident of Dayton, in the county of Montgomery l and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printing andManifolding Machines, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompany- 1 ing drawings,forming part of this specificaa neat manner without leaving unsightlyedges or gaps between the forms, andto arrange the printing so that thevarious blank lines to be filled on in the machine will come in registrywhen superimposed on each other 95 on the writing support or table.

The timing of the feed mechanisms in ma- .ehines of the type noted, mustbe taken into consideration, as well as the operation of the printingmechanism, so that one of i: the webs will not feed more rapidly thanthe others resulting in a misalignment which will be cumulative as theoperation of the machine continues. Thus it my object to provide for therelease of the pressure hetween the pa r webs and the printing devices,prefera 1y during each single feeding operation, thereby permittin thewebs of paper to adjust themselves with relation to the feed.

While there are several ways of arranging and locating the printingrolls with re lation to the table,'so that webs of the same consecutivenumber, will lie on the writing support, with the blank lines inrelative ali ent, I prefer to so locate the rinting ro ls j t hat thedistance from each r0 1 to the point of superposition of the webs is onecomplete form length further than the other, and I arrange the numberdevices so that the rinting cylinder nearest the idler rolls on tilewriting table will have its numerals one less than the next printingcylinder, and the third and fourth, or whatever number tension on thepaper. I am enabled by this of cylinders are used will have their numberprinted each one numeral in advance of the one before it.

In providing for a .release of the webs of paper from the printingcylinders and pressure rolls, I have found it to be to the bestadvantage to positively separate the printing cylinders and pressurerolls, rather than to leave a groove in the printing cylinder whichwould result in a similar release of means to have the printing plateson the 06 cylinders so formed as to leave substantially no gaps, and thereleasing action is more positive, and no sharp edges are presented tothe paper which is necessarily fragile,'and might be torn.

I accomplish the objects outlined by that certain construction andarrangement of parts to be hereinafter more specifically pointed out andclaimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the machine partly broken away toillustrate the internal mechanism.

Figure 2 is a detail side elevation on a larger scale of one of thepressureroll release devices.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of one of the printing cylinders.

Figure 4 is a side elevation detail of the inking rolls.

F igure'5 is a plan view of one of the printing cylinders.

Figure 6 is a detail plan viewof the print- I ing mechanism supports,showing one of the printing elements.

Figure 7 is a detail side elevation of the pressure roll control bar.

The machine as shown is of the cabinet type having a cabinet 1, whichcomes down over the mechanism and its frame. The frame of the machinecomprising essentially two uprights walls 2, 2, is supplemented near oneof said walls bya low upright wall 3, which is mounted on the platform4, upon which the cabinet rests. The articular ma-- chine illustratedhas a box-llke base 5, to give clearance for the rinting cylinders, butit will be understoo that the machine could be desi ned readily so as toomit the platform, an liave but a single base.

The wall 3 is mounted by means of screws 6 engaging ears 7 onthe loweredge of the wall so that the entire wall can be removed.

-The one end of the printing cylinder deas for change of printing rolls,or repairs thereon.

There is a writing table or support 8 which is hin ed at 9 to the rearend of the machine, an has a set of idlers 10 at the rear end over whichthe webs of paper 11 are drawn, and superimposed upon each other on thetable. The paper feed is located at the forward end of the table andcomprises a feed roll 12 on a shaft 13 which is operated by means of ahandle 14. The handle has a stop mechanism indicated at 15 whereby itmust be released at the end of each complete revolution. This revolutionis arranged to feed enough of the webs of paper to issue one printedform.

The handle drives the feed roll by means of a ear train 16, so as togive the desired lengt of feeding to the feed roll, for each singlerevolution of the handle.

The pressure roll which cooperates with the feed roll is shown at 17,and is movable by means of hinge arms-18 in a familiar manner. 4

The paper storage rolls, of which three are shown at 19 are mounted inthe machine by means of spindles engaging in slots 20 in the framewalls. In the particular machine shown the forward storage roll isarranged to find one of its journals in a small plate on a gear of theprinting cylinder driving train, and a single slanting slot 21 is formedin the oneside wall for guiding and g g g the end of the spindle notjournaled in the gear. I

' I provide a series of pressure rollers 22, which cooperate with theprinting cylinders.

These rollers are engaged by means of a pair. of slide plates 22 mountedon the frame wall 2 at one side and on the removable wall 3 at theother. Screws 23 engage in said two walls and passingthrough lengthwiseslots 24 in the' slide plates serve to mount said plates in'position. Atone or more points along the two walls 2 and 3 that support the platesare formed slots 25 throu h which pins 26 on the slide plates exten andspring 27 engaging the pins tend to pull the slide plates toward thefront end of the machine.

A cross shaft 28 at the rear end of the machine has a pair of arms 29,which are forkedand engage" studs 3.0 extending in wardly from the twoslide plates. A square end of the shaft extends through the side.

wall structure, and is engaged by a sockettool to rock the shaft therebypulling the slide plates toward the rear in order to mount the pressurerolls. I

The printing set of idler gears 39 are The walls 2' and 3 have verticalslots 31- therein, and the slide plates have slots 32 therein. Bypulling the slide plates rearwardly the splindles of the pressurerollscan be drop (1 into these slots. The slots 32 in the sli e plates haveat their lower ends aslant forwardly and downwardly, as indicated at'33, so that when the pressure roll s indles have been dropped in andthe two side plates released, the roll spindles will drop into theslantm slot portions, under spring compulsion, w ich will next beexplained, an tion imparted to the slide plates will force the rollspindles up through the slanting slots thereby lifting the said rolls.This lifting motion accomplishes the release of tension on the paperfrom the printing mechanism which has been pointed outas one of the mainobjectives of this invention.

The spring means for holding the pressure roll spindles down in therespective slots of the mounting elements erefor, are formedof latchplates 34, pivoted on the slide plates and held in position to bear onthe pressure roll spindles by means of springs 35. The latches 'willrock when the spindles are pushed upwardly in the manner' abovedescribed;

cylinders are mounted in the wall 3, an the wall2 on the'opposite sidetherefrom, and I have indicated the cylinders at 36 and the spindles at37. Each cylinder has a gear 38 fast thereon, and a mounted on the walls2 and 3 to establish a like drive for each roll, by means of the trainformed of Power is imparted to this gears 38 and 39. train by means oftwo gears 40 and 41,

on the feed shaft 0 the machine.

In order to slide the plates by whlch theprinting pressure rolls arecontrolled, an

thereafter any rearward moear 43 is turned down from the plates at Q oneor more points, and studs 44 "onone or more of the cylinder gears 38strike the ears and force the slide plates backwardly once for eachcylinder "revolution. In the particular machine shown the pressure .isrelelased at about the middleof each feeding cyc e ing plates on thecylinders, indicated at 45, arranged so that whenthe slide platesaremoved over at the end of each form, the gaps between printed impressionscome-between forn s.

slide plates from one side. only of the machine. The operation of oneslideplate by means of the ear, and gear stud mechanism noted, willoperate the other slide plate by means of the rockshaft and forked armconstruction which has been described as 1.16 but this'is unimportantThe print- In order to keep the numbering devices f *free for operationin the' mode to be next described, I havevarran'ged to operate the whichderive their fpower from the gear 42 I mounted in the machine, and thewebs -mounted fast on the shaft 51.

the means for preliminary adjustment of the slide plates duringinstallation of the pressure rolls.

The numbering devices are indicated at 46, and are inset into theprinting cylinders and have operating shafts 47 extending out throughthe one end of each cylinder. A half circle shaped plate 48 on theoutside face of each of the cylinders, at the end away from the gears,extends into position where its straight edges will be engaged byv apair of studs 4.9, located on the side wall supporting structure 3. Ateach revolution of the printing cylinders, the plates 48 will be struckfirst by one stud to rock it into a direction to revolve the numberingdevice one digit, and will then be struck by the next stud to revolve itback again.

The inking rolls for the printing cylinders are mounted on brackets 50set in the base of the machine (Figure 4), and spring-impelled shafts 51mounted in said brackets. The rolls as shown at 52' have arms 53 Thereis one inking roll for each cylinder, and in order to hold the rollsoutof inking position, a

.rod 54 is provided, which is connected to a set of arms 55, also faston the spring shafts.

The rod 54 is held in position in an L-slot 56 formed in the platform 4,and so arranged that when the rod end or finger 57 is in the branch ofthe L the inkingrolls Will be held out of contact, and when the rod endis in the main body of the L, the inking rolls will be in contact withsaid printing cylinders.- The rod will be loosely enough mounted so thatit can be slightly rocked to accomplish this bayonet slot engagement.

It is believed that the operation of the machine will now be understoodfrom the above description. The rolls ofpaper are brought down around,the pressure rolls,

5 thereby bringing them. into contact with the printing cylinders. Theyare then led up and over the idlers on the back end of the writingtable, and thence to the paper feed. The printing cylinders arepositioned so that with the printing faces arranged alike on thecylinders, the distance from each cylinder to the idler roll for its webwill bring the several forms into suitable juxtaposition whensuperimposed on the table.i

The numbering devices will be set to rint the same numbers for the formswhic over each other during the time of writing upon them. As in allmanifolding machines, some means is provided on the writing table forthe transfer of im ressions formed on the topmost web to t ose beneath.

In the autographic register type which will preferably be carbon paperarranged across the table between the webs.

I have described in detail the several important parts of my mechanism,but do not wish that the omission of showing of equiva-' 1. In a deviceof the character described,

a common paper feeding mechanism for "a plurality of webs of paper, aprinting mechanism driven in synchronism therewith, means formaintaining an engagement of the printing mechanism with webs of paper,and means for enforcedly releasing the said engagement so as to permitof adjustment of the webs of paper withrelation to the feed. D

2. In a device of the character described,

a common paper feeding mechanism for a plurality of webs of paper, aprinting mechanism comprising a'printing cylinder, and a pressure rollcooperating. with the cylinder, and means forjdriving said printingmechanism synchronously with the feeding mech anism, and means forautomatically removing' the pressure roll from the cylinder durthefeeding, mechanism.

mg a portion of the period of operation of g 3. Ina device of thecharacter described,

a common paper feeding mechanism for a plurality of webs of'paper, aprintlng mechanism comprising a printing cyllnder, and

a pressure roll cooperating with the cylinder, and means for driving.said printing mechanism synchronously. with the feeding mechanism, andmeans for automatically removing thepressure roll from the cylinderduring a portion of the period of operation of the feeding mechanism,and at least once during the feeding of each form printed by means ofsaid rinting mechanism.

4. In a machlne of the character described, the combination with a paperfeed, of a printing mechanism comprisintg a-f'plugaligy ura 1 y 0 pr ssue of rinting cylinders, a p rol s mounte to bear upon said cylmders, aslide plate in which said pressure. rolls'are mounted, a camming elementadapted to engage and lift the rolls from cylinder en-v gagement whenthe slide plate is moved,and means for automatically 0 crating the saidfslideplate from the paper eed.

plurality of webs of paper, 'a. printing mechanism driven in chronismtherewith,

means for maintaining an engagement of the printing mechanism with websof paper and means for automatically said ms u 5. In a device ofthecharacter described, i 9. common paper feeding mechanism for aengagement'during the feeding mechanism operation.

6. In a device of thecharac'tei' described,

'a common paperfeeding' mechanism for a plurality of webs of paper,-aprinting mechanism driven in synchronism therewith, means formaintaining an engagement of the printing mechanism with webs of paper,

, and means for automatically releasing said engagement during thefeeding mechanism operation, and at least once during the feed 0 eachform.

7. In a device of the character described,

' the combination of a series of rolls of paper,

an engagement of the webs of paper with 20 respective printingcylinders, and means controlled by'the paper feedin mechanismforoperating the cylinders, an for periodi- 'cally elevating all pressureelements away from the cylinders simultaneously.

8. In a device'of he character described, the combination of a series ofrolls of paper,

. a writing support, and paper feeding mecha- 'msm, engaging and drawmgthe paper over the support, a series of printing cylinders and pressureelements adapted to enforce an engagement of the webs of paper withrespect ve printing cylinders, and means controlled by the paper feedingmechanism for operating the cylinders, and forperiodically the support,a series of anism, engaging and drawlng the paper over rinting cylindersand pressure elements a apted to enforce an engagement of the webs ofpaper with respective printing cylinders, and means controlled by thepaper feeding mechanism for operating the cylinders, and forperiodically elevating all pressure elements away from the cylinderssimultaneously, the printing cylinders being arranged with the printingsurfaces alike on each andset in the same relation to each other, eachcylinder having its engaging surfacelocated a form length further romthe paper feeding mechanism, than the preceding cylinder.

10. In a device of the character described, a paper feeding mechanism aprinting mechanism formed of a plura ity of units for separate webs ofpaper, means for maintaming an engagement of the printing mechanism withthe several aper webs, and means for automatically releasing saidengagement during the feeding mechanism 0 eration, and simultaneously,for all we s of paper.

JOHN Q. SHERMAN.

